12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
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They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. …
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; …
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)The prophet having had orders to write the vision , and the people to wait for the accomplishment of it, the vision itself follows; and it is, as divers other prophecies we have met with, the burden of Babylon and Babylon’s king, the same that was said to pass over and offend , Hab. 1:11. It reads the doom, some think, of Nebuchadnezzar, who was principally active in the destruction of Jerusalem,…
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